(254 quotes found)
“If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new”
Voltaire
“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”
Dr. Seuss
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
Chamfort
“Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie”
William Shakespeare
“. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.”
Washington Irving
“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones”
Wendell L. Willkie
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward
